Bahare Zare Bahari fighting deportation in the Philippines

Bahari believes she is being targeted for supporting the exiled Reza Pahlavi, the son of the Shah of Iran overthrown in the country’s 1979 revolution.The beauty queen blamed the situation on authorities, saying it came up because she used an image of Pahlavi and the flag of the former Iranian monarchy as props during a recent competition. Bahari said she made the statement “to try and be the voice of my people.”